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We finally know whose throat Rob Ford wanted to rip out in one of many notorious videos
We finally know who Rob Ford was referring to when he said he needed just “10 f***ing minutes to make sure he’s dead.”
The late Toronto mayor was looking to get in the ring with none other than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, according to a report in the Toronto Sun.
During Ford’s four tumultuous years as Toronto mayor, shocking cellphone camera videos of the mayor became almost commonplace.
The video shows a slurring Ford ranting and raving that he wants to “murder” someone and “rip his f***ing throat out.”
But it wasn’t intended to be taken seriously, one witness to that night in June 2012 told the Sun’s Joe Warmington. Instead, it was Ford, who was a big pro-wrestling fan, joking around WWF-style that he wanted to fight Trudeau.
The cellphone video was shot just after Trudeau, then an MP, famously beat Senator Patrick Brazeau in a charity boxing match in April of that year.
“It was just about what would happen if he had a boxing match with Trudeau,” Tom Beyer told Warmington this week. He said it was just Ford saying he would beat Trudeau and adopting the style of pro-wrestling to do so.
“It was just Rob having some fun. It was just his Hulk Hogan act,” Beyer said.
The video in question was purchased and posted by the Toronto Star — but only after the Toronto Sun first published a portion. It was November 2013, in the middle of Ford’s time in the office and following myriad reports of his substance abuse issues and his vulgar, sometimes violent, outbursts.
We finally know whose throat Rob Ford wanted to rip out in one of many notorious videos
We finally know whose throat Rob Ford wanted to rip out in one of many notorious videos
We finally know who Rob Ford was referring to when he said he needed just “10 f***ing minutes to make sure he’s dead.”
The late Toronto mayor was looking to get in the ring with none other than Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, according to a report in the Toronto Sun.
During Ford’s four tumultuous years as Toronto mayor, shocking cellphone camera videos of the mayor became almost commonplace.
The video shows a slurring Ford ranting and raving that he wants to “murder” someone and “rip his f***ing throat out.”
But it wasn’t intended to be taken seriously, one witness to that night in June 2012 told the Sun’s Joe Warmington. Instead, it was Ford, who was a big pro-wrestling fan, joking around WWF-style that he wanted to fight Trudeau.
The cellphone video was shot just after Trudeau, then an MP, famously beat Senator Patrick Brazeau in a charity boxing match in April of that year.
“It was just about what would happen if he had a boxing match with Trudeau,” Tom Beyer told Warmington this week. He said it was just Ford saying he would beat Trudeau and adopting the style of pro-wrestling to do so.
“It was just Rob having some fun. It was just his Hulk Hogan act,” Beyer said.
The video in question was purchased and posted by the Toronto Star — but only after the Toronto Sun first published a portion. It was November 2013, in the middle of Ford’s time in the office and following myriad reports of his substance abuse issues and his vulgar, sometimes violent, outbursts.
We finally know whose throat Rob Ford wanted to rip out in one of many notorious videos
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